John Bailey, MBA

John Bailey, MBA, is an accomplished financial executive with over 25 years of experience in private and public environments, from startups to Fortune 200 companies.

John excels in operational finance, strategic planning, and company performance enhancement, serving as a trusted right hand to CEOs and fostering a culture-based mindset.

As an officer, his responsibilities have included financial management, long-range planning, executive committee membership, board leadership, corporate governance, risk management, fundraising, and investor relations, having raised over $80M for private companies.

His diverse background spans industries like high tech, life sciences, aerospace, SaaS, and manufacturing, with notable achievements such as scaling a software startup to 600 employees and $75M in revenue, and participating in a $20B pharma acquisition.

John's expertise extends to business strategy, KPIs, finance function development, HR management, IT oversight, culture implementation, supply chain management, and system integrations, including ERP and data analytics technologies like AI.

Beyond financial acumen, John brings intangible skills like transparency, collaboration, emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, operational execution, humor, relationship-building, and business partnering.

He completed his MBA at Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management and holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of Maryland.

John has held various executive roles in organizations like Sustainable Cargo Solutions, Boston Startup CFO, Hahn-Mason Air Systems Inc, fluidIQ, Alakai Technologies Corporation, LiquiGlide, GNS Healthcare, Carbon Black, Genzyme, and Patina Solutions (now Korn Ferry).